Around 20 students of Shri Shikshayatan school had a close shave on Thursday morning when the brakes of the bus carrying them failed and the vehicle slid down a slope beside Lorry Road in Entally.
A doctor who recorded the wrong date and time of a woman's death was the trigger for a daylong drama at SSKM that led to the deceased's sons being arrested for vandalism and delayed the body's release.
Calcutta High Court has been flooded with a record number of petitions ' 300-odd at last count ' from students dissatisfied with their marks in Higher Secondary 2008 and wanting a look at their answer scripts.
Calcutta, July 3: Prakash Karat may not want Mulayam Singh Yadav to prop up the Manmohan Singh government if the Left withdraws support over the nuclear deal, but many of his Bengal comrades would be relieved to see the UPA government survive.
Calcutta, July 3: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today ruled out a ban on Maoists, saying the government would prefer to tackle them "administratively and politically".
Chinsurah/Calcutta, July 3: CPM leaders will meet a senior Singur officer tomorrow to protest the move to lay off 700 night guards at the Tata Motors plant without five months' pay.
